A Quote by Tony D'Souza

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

Tony D'Souza

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Tony D'Souza
American - Novelist
Born: July 2, 1974

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Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.

Thomas Steinbeck

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With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed-he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.